4. What is the shaking of the Earth's crust caused by a release of
energy?
A. Earthquake
B. Epicenter
C. Fault
D. Plate
5. Which type of movement is associated with a strike-slip fault?
A. Compression
B. Diverging
C. Shearing
D. Trembling
6. Which type of movement is associated with a normal fault?
A. Compression
B. Diverging
C. Shearing
D. Trembling
7. Which type of movement is associated with a reverse fault?
A. Compression
B. Diverging
C. Shearing
D. Trembling
8. What type of fault involves the hanging wall moving down and the footwall moving
up as the crust moves towards each other?
A. Normal
B. Reverse
C. Strike-Slip
D. Tension
9. What is an epicenter? The epicenter of an earthquake is
A. the area on the surface directly above the breaking point
B. where a rock under stress breaks
C. seismic waves that carry energy across the crust
D. the shaking of the ground caused by sudden movement of rock
10. It is an instrument used to measure the amount of energy released by an
earthquake.
A. seisnograph
B. microscope
C. seismograph
D. stenograph
11. How do faults produce earthquakes?
A. magma and lava from volcanic eruption spread producing faults
B. tectonic plates collide forming volcanoes and causing earthquakes
C. molten rock materials accumulate and go out along the fault producing
earthquake
D. energy from the inside of the Earth makes the ground move, when a fault slips
it produces earthquake
12. What happens to the earthquake intensity as you go away
from the focus?
A. decreases
B. increases
C. does not change
D. decrease then increase
13. Why is it important to locate the epicenter of an earthquake?
A.
to determine the size of seismic waves
B. to know the intensity of an earthquake
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Answer:
4 a
5 a
6 c
7 b
8 d
9 d
10 b
11 d
12 d
13 a
Explanation:
because the directly topic is on the earthquake